Cant-dog



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Cant Dog;

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. TERANGE F. OASSIDY, OF BANGOR, MAINE.

CANT-DOG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,992, dated December 28, 1880,

Application filed November 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TERANGE F. GASSIDY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cant-Dogs; and I do hereby declare the followin g to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable persons skilled in the art to which the improvement relates to make and use the same.

My invention relates especially to improvements in cant-dogs in which a solid cast-iron socket is used at the lower end of the stock, and in which the lips whereto the hook is pivoted, being of cast-iron, are liable to break, and thus spoil the entire socket. I overcome this obstacle by means of the device shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents side view. Fig. 2 represents section through center. Fig. 3 is a detail, in section, on line a: w of Figs. 1 and 2.

A is a cast-iron socket, which is driven upon the end of the stock O. Near the top of the socket are cast the shoulders at a, which ex- Between these shoulders, and held firmly in place by them, is the wrought-iron or steel clasp B, the two ends of (No model.)

which form lips, to which, at d, the cant-hook Dis pivoted. a" and a are stops, which are cast as a part of the socket A.

The great strain and the hard usage to which a cant-dog is subjected render it necessary that it should be constructed in the strongest manner. My clasp is so constructed that it is impossible that it should ever work loose. It is also simply and cheaply made.

I am aware that other cant-dogs have been used consisting of a solid socket and a separable clasp; but I know of none which combine the strength, durability, and cheapness of my invention.

I claim- In a cant-dog, the cast-iron socket A, having shoulders 60 (t and stops at a cast on it, between which shoulders the clasp B fits snugly, and on which stops the pivoted hook is stayed in its forward and backward movements, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set myhand this 2d day of November, A. D. 1880, in the presence of two witnesses.

TERANOE F. GASSIDY.

Witnesses:

NORRIS E. BRAGG, BRIAN J. DUNN. 

